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Definition of Blind alley

1. Noun. A street with only one way in or out.

2. Noun. (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement. "So far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley"

Definition of Blind alley

1. Noun. A street that leads nowhere. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blind Alley

blimming blimp blimp out blimped blimping blimpish blimpishly blimpishness blimpishnesses blimplike

blimps blimy blin blinatumomab blind blind alley (current term) blind alleys blind as a bat blind bend blind boil

blind carbon copy blind corner blind curve blind date blind dates blind drunk blind ecash blind eel blind enema blind fistula

Literary usage of Blind alley

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Community Life and Civic Problems by Howard Copeland. Hill (1922)
"A BLIND-ALLEY JOB Will this boy's present occupation fit him for a better ... Blind-alley jobs. Usually boys and girls who thus leave school can secure only ..."

2. Civil Service of Great Britain by Robert Moses (1914)
"(5) The “blind alley” employment of boy clerks, sanctioned by the Ridley report, by which boys of ..."

3. Newsboy Service: A Study in Educational and Vocational Guidance by Mrs Anna Yeomans Reed (1917)
"NEWSBOY SERVICE AS A BLIND-ALLEY OCCUPATION Having concluded that many of the fundamental business precepts which boys can and should learn as a part of ..."

4. Mind and Work: The Psychological Factors in Industry and Commerce by Charles Samuel Myers (1921)
"... selection tests—"General impressions"—"Phrenological" and physiognomic tests—Classification and use of mental tests—Blind- alley and unsuitable ..."

5. A Treasure Chest of Memories by Joe Mitchell Chapple (1911)
"The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thorough fare. It closes on the twilight, it opens on the dawn." THE WOOD-BOX It was kept out in the kitchen, ..."

6. Child Welfare in North Carolina by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Wiley Hampton Swift (1918)
"Children engaged in blind-alley jobs—unregulated occupations which lead nowhere but which keep them on the street at any time of the day ..."

7. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1906)
"... animal undisturbed ; test 2, turned to the left and went toward R, but later iS without pausing; test 3, paused at 0 for a sh not enter the blind alley; ..."

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